Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1887-08-20
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A rumor prevailed ON the streets yester'
day that B. Petit, the undertaken ano TUT
niturs dealer, had made m sbortive az
tempt to shuttle Oh tho mortal coil BY the
morphine route. The grounds for this were
that his wife had aroused the neighoors AT
an early hour and sent hurriedly Tor III.
Whitford who arrived at the house be-
tween 1 and 3 q. m. Mr.. Petit himself,
when asked about the occurrence yester'
day afternoon, laughed at the idea and
said: II have been in trouble lately about
this Rosenthal foreclosure on the chatter
mortgage on my stock, and last night
drank heavily and came home more under
the influence than l have ever been. l lay
down in bed and the position and the heat
Of the room began to
HAVE AN EFFECT ON ME
and made me deathly sick. My wife, who
had never seen me SO affected before,
awakened, and. seeing me, asked in an ex-
cited way if l had taken poison. l said
yes, Just as q man when he is full will as
sent to anything, and she immediately ran
out and alarmed the neighbors and sent
for DR.. Whitford. He came and gave me
an emetic, and after q little / got better,
and am just a. we'll as ever to-day" Mr..
Petit certainly did not present the ap-
pearance of a man to whom anything un-
usual had happened, and he was attending
to business the same az usual. DR.. Whit
ford was asked il he thought any poison
had been taken, and said he could find no
trace of such q thing. He had been called
to Mr.. Pettit's house about half-past one,
and when he arrived the patient had re-
lieved himeelf OF what was on his stomach.
but, to make sure, he
GAVE HIM AN EMETIc.
He chad not used a stomach pump, and
did not think Mr.. Petit had taken any
poison. The cause assigned for such a
rash act was that Joe RoseLthal, who held
a chattel mortgage ON Mr.. Pettit's stock,
had foreclosed, and the goods were adver-
tised by the Sheriff to be sold next Mon
day. The mortgage was for $1,O11, due
thirty days after date. The stock in Mr..
Pettit's store is worth several times this
amount, and it was naturally inferred that
this desperate eituation had unnerved Mr..
Petit and driven him to suicide. Such is
not the case. as he has many friends who
would see him through any trouble even
worse than this. ]. D. Thomas and Geoff
Lavell were applied to by him yesterday
and they agreed to assume the mortgage
on bis stock and help him 80 as to tide
over his present difficulties. By the ar
rangement made with them he continues I
his present stand a6d, it 10 hoped, will
come out Of his present embarrassment.
HIS OWN VERSION.
The following humorous 0ount Of the
attempted suicide" is given by Petit him
self in an interview with a representative
of The MINER after reading tho account in
the evening paper:
EYES," said Petit, "business being a
little dull and having q large assortment
Of first CLAUS caekets on hand I thought /
would dispose OF one of them by shutting
OF this mortal COLL So l got g%loriously
full night before last and after filling up.
with bad whiskey and the horrible lunches
set out at some OF the bars I went home
and to bed. The whiskey and the greasy
lunches didn't agree and SO concluded to
come up and have it out on the floor.
While l was retching and vomiting to &C.
commodate the said whiskey and lunch,
my wife asked me if I had taken poison.
"(Hic) yes said 1, over fifty Doses
"This answer frightened my vile and
after raising an alarm she went off in
Mysteries. A doctor came but no stomach
pumps were used and here l am. 1t was
a plain case OF drunk and nothing more.
As for the ST. 600 mortgage that is all
settled and the great public will find ma or
hand ut my old place as usual ready to
furnish the finest caskets. furniture, etc., to
those who want them. When Petit ia
fool enough to kill himself for a paltry
thousand dollar mortgage or anything
else I will let the world know all about it
Petit proposes to stay a while longer"
This is the substance of Mr.. Pettit's
words and as the gentleman treated the
matter lightly it may be presumed he con-
siders the whole matter in the light oil q
hoax.